Damien Geradin

University of Tilburg, Euclid Law (Brussels)

Founding Partner, Professor

Damien founded EDGE Legal in January 2015, and merged the firm with Euclid Law in February 2017. Before creating his own independent practice, Damien was a partner in the Brussels office of Covington & Burling LLP where he was the co-head of the firm’s European litigation practice.
Damien has assisted clients in many high-stake European Commission investigations, including some of the most complex abuse of dominance cases. Damien has frequently also represented clients before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He also intervenes as an expert witness in national court proceedings and international arbitrations as an expert witness. According to Chambers Global, Mr. Geradin “is well known for his writing”, with commentators describing him as “one of the best antitrust theoreticians around.”
Damien is also a Professor of competition law and economics at Tilburg University and a visiting Professor at University College London. Over the years, he has held visiting Professorships at leading US law schools including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and Yale. He was also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, for 15 years. He is the co-author of Global Antitrust Law and Economics (2nd 2011) and EU Competition Law and Economics (2013).

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For those following the headlines in the pharmaceutical sector, you will be well aware that the competition authorities in Europe are aggressively prosecuting companies for practices that restrict entry by generic suppliers. Headline cases in the last year include the European Commission’s (...)

While the EU is known for imposing skyrocketing fines in cartel cases, there was for a long time very limited damages litigation. Damages claims have however started mushrooming over the past few years, with most of the “action” concentrated in a few EU Member States. This recent growth in (...)

This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22th of February 2013) was dedicated to « Personal data: Will competition law collide with privacy?». Bruno Lasserre author of the first contribution and President of the French Competition Authority provides us with the (...)

On 5 June 2007, the Global Competition Law Centre organized in cooperation with the European Commission an event aiming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of EC competition rules with the signature of the EC Treaty in Rome. This event, which symbolically took place in the (...)

Former Commissioner Mario Monti announced at the Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in October 2003 that the Commission would conduct a re-examination of the law and practice of Article 82. Since then a huge amount of intellectual energy has been spent - both (...)